| Summary: | signed postmaster, Jan. 6, 1886. Long since discontinued. (80; C. F. Emerson, Pembina, N. Dak., 9/10/56) NECHE: Settlement began around Smuggler's Point, an early fur trading post a mile or so west of the present site of Neche. The settlement was mainly Scots who came here for protection when evicted from the Selkirk Colony in Manitoba. Their post office was about a mile north of the present site of Neche, known as OTTENTION, for when it was established May 27, 1873, John Otten was the assigned postmaster; discontinued Oct. 29, 1873; reestablished Dec. 6, 1875, with Joseph Daniels, postmaster. The St. Paul, Mpls. and Manitoba Rwy. (now the Great Northern), in the spring of 1882 crossed the country and entered Canada, and in December of that year platted a townsite on Sec. 31-164-53, naming it Neche. The post office was moved here from Ottention and M. J. Lyman was appointed postmaster, soon succeeded by Andrew H. Nesbitt. Neche became a port of entry in the fall of 1882, and Henry C Feldman was appointed collector of customs and James Laporte, inspector. In January, 1883, the first building erected on the townsite was the Brown Bros. Store. The village organized in August, 1883. It is supposedly named by James J. Hill, GNRR president, who stood in the saloon of the small trading post here and heard an Indian greet the bartender with the word "Neche." He asked the meaning and was told it meant "friend" in the Chippewa language. Hill is then reported to have said, "We will call this place Neche." The township is named for the town. (11, p. 201; 7,4/15/27; 76; 80) NOWESTA: A point on the Red River on Sec. 20, Lincoln Twp., named for the Nor'westers, as pronounced by the residents (North West Fur Co.), who hunted for furs in the pioneer days. Their post at the forks of the Red River in 1812 was named Fort Gibraltar. The post office was established at Nowesta Nov. 25, 1885, with Whitfield Douglas, postmaster; long since discontinued. The Nor'westers were generally metis, or halfbreeds. (10, p. 775; 19, vol. 1, no. 4, p. 52; 80) OTTENTION: See NECHE. PARK: See GARDAR. PARKTOWN: See GARDAR. PEMBINA: This place dates its beginnings back to 1797-1798 when Charles Chaboillez, of the North West Fur Co., established and operated a temporary wintering fur trading post on this site. Shortly afterward the Hudson's Bay Co. and the X Y Company (both Canadian) established several posts in this area. But Pembina, at the confluence of the Red and Pembina Rivers, evolved from a settlement 227 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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